A northern Israeli municipality cancelled a meeting between high school students and an Israeli-Palestinian NGO after parents and right-wing politicians complained that they did not want the children exposed to “terrorists.” The non-compulsory meeting in the town of Nesher between high school students and The Parents Circle Families Forum, a grassroots organization of Palestinian and Israeli families who have lost immediate family members in the conflict, was slated for Thursday. The student council expressed its full support for the educational staff that planned the meeting. Forum spokeswoman Robi Damelin said “we’d like to meet the parents who opposed the meeting at Nesher and the students who perhaps feel threatened and say something simple: Our stories are just like theirs. My pain is no different from a Palestinian mother’s pain.”
— source jfjfp.com | Dec 19, 2019